How to check if an element of a list is a list (in Python)?

Question

If we have the following list:

list = [\'UMM\', \'Uma\', [\'Ulaster\',\'Ulter\']]

If I need to find out if an element in the list is itself

Answer 1

Expression you are looking for may be:

...
return any( isinstance(e, list) for e in my_list )

Testing:

>>> my_list = [1,2]
>>> any( isinstance(e, list) for e in my_list )
False
>>> my_list = [1,2, [3,4,5]]
>>> any( isinstance(e, list) for e in my_list )
True
>>>